SNA Postal Office has issued on
the 19th September 2004 a revolutionary and unique sand stamp. It displayed the sculpture
"Sand Castle", by the artist A. Buonopane, a work that won the third place
at the Lido di
Jesolo International Sand Sculpting Championship 2002.

The stamp disappeared from all the sales points worldwide on the issuing
day, a tremendous success that led the SNAPO team to issue on the 24th
August 2005 a set of four new self-adhesive stamps. The stamps reproduce
sculptures presented at the Sand Sculpting Festival 2005 in Lido di Jesolo,
Italy. The common theme of the ephemeral works of art was this time
"Hollywood".

As for the first issue, the multi-formatted
self-adhesive stamps were manufactured by superposing two hundreds layers of
the finest, naturally colored SNA sand.
The sand particles were glued together by using the same patented mixture,
based on the famous
fennec tea.The stamps were printed by the Courvoisier SNA Security
Printers Ltd. at Ciudad de Leon, the capital of the SNA. The print run was
of only 30,000 stamps. The stamps, as long as still available, can be found
in all good philatelic businesses worldwide.

. Please
take a look at the group picture of the talented artists who exposed their
works at Lido di Jesolo in 2005. All works featured on stamps are
copyrighted by the respective artists shown above.